Hello from Bavaria!

[Guest]

The pay was actually rather poor.

So, sort of like that part in Band of Brothers where the real ones talk about how they ended up in a paratroop unit? “It pays ten cents (or somesuch small amount) extra per day.” “I’m in!”

[Airborne01]

So, sort of like that part in Band of Brothers where the real ones talk about how they ended up in a paratroop unit? “It pays ten cents (or somesuch small amount) extra per day.” “I’m in!”

Para pay was worthwhile back in the mid-60's! Hardly given currently (to save the cash required for MP's pay rises, benefits and pensions I suspect!)
Steve :money-face:

[vizenz]

I don't remember the exact amount, but it was about 100 euros a month - before taxes! Not a big step to becoming rich and famous. :smiling6:

[Andy the Sheep]

My first pay in 1983 was 1000 Italian Lire (50 cents, maybe 52 :rolling: in today's €) per day. Not a big step towards richness and fame too but a giant leap towards an enviable suit size :tongue-out3:

[Guest]

My first pay in 1983 was 1000 Italian Lire (50 cents, maybe 52 :rolling: in today's €) per day. Not a big step towards richness

Almost ten years after that, I had a bet with someone in school, “for a tenner.” I don’t recall what the bet was about, except that I claimed something and he claimed it was otherwise, then bet me that he was right. He wasn’t. He then took his wallet from his pocket, opened it, dug around, and gave me a 10 lira coin he had from a recent holiday in Italy … I wasn’t the only one there who felt he was unfairly weaseling out of having to pay ten guilders (in modern money, no inflation correction: about €4.50). That coin was worth about one guilder-cent at the time, as I recall.

[Andy the Sheep]

In the early '70s you payed 100 lire for a small ice cream; 10 lire was the value of one chewing gum.

[Waspie]

In the early '70s you payed 100 lire for a small ice cream; 10 lire was the value of one chewing gum.

My poor brain couldn’t cope with the exchange rate back then!!! (Lire/GBP).

[Airborne01]

My mate reckons he recalls the Singapore rate of exchange (in the late 60's - 70's) was one over-priced drink per Whiskey Dolly! I thought it was less than that ...
Steve

[Waspie]

My mate reckons he recalls the Singapore rate of exchange (in the late 60's - 70's) was one over-priced drink per Whiskey Dolly! I thought it was less than that ...
Steve

7 Singapore $’s to the pound in 1970/71.

[Andy the Sheep]

My poor brain couldn’t cope with the exchange rate back then!!! (Lire/GBP).

In 1973 1 pound = 1300/1500 lire; I leave to you the conversion into non decimal pound sub-units as my poor brain can't cope with that system anymore. :disappointed2:

[Guest]

Luckily for you, the pound had gone decimal by then (And, in any case, the value of the pound didn’t change, only that of the penny, and the shilling was essentially renamed “five-pence piece”.)